Stories By

Parker Palmer

8 stories on DailyGood

Five Habits of the Heart

In Habits of the Heart, Parker Palmer describes ways of seeing, being, and responding to life that involve our ...

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Courage & Vulnerability: Corona & the Wisdom of Elders

"In every crisis of my life, learning has helped me find my way through. That means paying attention, allowing ...

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Community, Conflict and Ways of Knowing

"I argue that the relation established between the knower and the known, between the student and the subject, tends ...

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That Friend Walking Behind Me

In this beautiful reverie, Parker Palmer imagines a friend who has been walking behind him all the time, calling his ...

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Parker Palmer Muses on the Season

"I will wax romantic about spring and its splendors in a moment, but first there is a hard truth to be told: before ...

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Give That Which Is Organic to You: a Recipe to Avoid Burnout

"When I give something I do not possess, I give a false and dangerous gift, a gift that looks like love but is, in ...

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The Clearness Committee: a Communal Approach to Discernment in Retreats

"I want to describe a method invented by the Quakers, a method that protects individual identity and integrity while ...

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Turning to Face the Dark

"In May of 2019, Rabbi Dr. Ariel Burger sat down with educator and writer Parker J. Palmer for an unscripted ...

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